Forgers and Critics, New Edition

The close links between forgery and criticism throughout history
In Forgers and Critics, Anthony Grafton provides a wide-ranging exploration of the links between forgery and scholarship. Labeling forgery the ΓÇ£criminal siblingΓÇ¥ of criticism, Grafton describes a panorama of remarkable individualsΓÇöforgers from classical Greece through the recent pastΓÇöwho produced a variety of splendid triumphs of learning and style, as well as the scholarly detectives who honed the tools of scholarship in attempts to unmask these skillful fakers. In the process, Grafton discloses the extent, the coherence, and the historical interest of two significant and tightly intertwined strands in the Western intellectual tradition.